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JO V itiNl A lA. DAMN: Extracts from the Morning Papers, Jan. WS J 1826. [MORNING ,POST.] We perceive that the. Liberal portion of the. Press perseveres in this worthy efforts to prejtt4 dice the minds .the people f against Lord : char le,s Somerset. This conduct, at a.moment ‘vhen the Noble Lord is understood to be on his way to England, in order that every charge against him may Undergo a strict and impartial investigation, illustrates in arcmarkable manner, that love of jaallee, and that respect for its due administra-' than; of which the Radical Faction make so per petual a boast. The secret motives of hostility, if indeed they can be called secret—for the veil hypocrisy is drawn over WM with a most care less hand—are unquestionably to be found in the hereditary rank of the persecuted indiVidual. It is . not as Governor at the Cape of ,Good Hope that the supposed delinquencies of the Noble Lord excite all this premature slew of indigna. tion—for any plebeian Governor would have been far otherwise treated ; it is for the higher grime, the original and indelible sin of belonging to the high Aristocracy of England, that it_ is thus attempted, to hunt him down without regard either to' the dictates of natural equity or the necessary forms of established jurisprudence. The Radical P l 4oolltos long been accumulating the malignant venom of its, hatred to superior rank, from the mere want of an object and an op. portutmity for its vent. The reptile is replete .even to bursting—and it bursts prematurely. If there are any'ratiOnal grounds even for suspecting Lord Chas. Somerset for malversation in his high office let his conduct,, we say, undergo a rigorous and soleMn investigation. Let him not, however, be' borne down by vulgar clamour on the one hand ; nor still less on the other let him be hedged round by artificial sympathies, or fortified by our antipathy to his persecutors. If 'the Radical Presi is determined, merely because he is under accusation, to condense and direct against him the whole animosity it feels towards the elevated order of society in, which ho was born, let not the Public therefore be led into the error of considering him as the representative of that order. Let Justice have its free and perfect course ; and, above all, let it not be forgotten, that no order in the State has a deeper interest in repressing the crimes of which the Noble Lord is accused than the distinguished one,to which he belong's. In the mean time, and as so much has already been said upon the,sub ject, it may be permitted us to observe, that upon the sheaving of his enemies even We shOuld feel but little dread of time result of any examination 010) may take place. His accusers have been themselves accused. Some of these self-accused or convicted. The co-partners of his alleged Offences—for the offences imputed to' him are not IndiVidnal but conjoint and official—have not hitherto, any more than the Noble Lord himself, 66n - either confessing or convicted offenders..-1 Thls'distinctiort is perhaits worth something. [Tilt: TIMES.] rho French papers some titne ago informed ev, that M. de La Bourdounitye, the leader of the Royalist Opposition in the Chamber of Deputies, had had a conference with his ikfalesty Charles X. They at the same, time either did not know, or durst not reveal, the object Or result of the meeting. We are enabled by one of our Palk cerresponrlents to supply the deficiency, and to give the most accredited account of this interview. M. de La Bourdonnuye, who has found out that every Ministry in France has been too moderate for the last ten years, has taken a particular dis like to M. de Ville le, either because he imagines that he is endangering the Monarchy by his temporizing policy and excessive moderation, or because ins does not see the superior merit of the said M. do La Bourdormaye, and take him us ilk colleague, or resign in his fa vour. His Majesty, who probably attaches more importaece to the legislative influence of this Ultra than he ought, wished to reconcile him to his measures, or silence his opposition to his Ministry. After attempting to do so in vain at the interview above alluded to, the King got patient at the resistance which he met with , and concluded the conference übruptly, by saying 44 Well, Sir, you finally intend to vote with the " Jacobins." ." Yes, Sire," replied M. de l,a Bourdormaye, " I shall vote with the Jacobins, 66 just fi I voted with them formerly by your " own order, when our object „was to turn out the 64 Ministry of Richelieu." This answer, which claimed the King's authority for opposing his will; silenced the argumeots, hut did not satisfy the expectations of his Majesty. It is said that, the Ministry are extremely embarrassed in prepariog the speech for the King at the opening of the Climbers. He is exceeding ly noxious to tell his people from the throne, as he often tells his Courtiers in private, that the liberty of the. press has been abused, and that the £'our Royale has neglected its duty, in not panithiti g its licentiouiness. M. de Villele, on the other hand, opposes any illusion to these delicate topics, being aware that in this case the King is inspired by his Confessor rather than his Interest, au() that a declarati o n o f wa r aga i nst t h e Judges could only tend to the triumph bf the Jesuitical party over both I he King, the tribunals, and the ontiou. A short time will determine whether Charles X. will show more docility to the father Trifler, or the sagacious Minister of the day. One of our correspondents adverts in severe terms to the scandalous manner in which the taws for abolishing the slave trade are evaded in France. Baron de Steel, the author of every sensible Letters on Ettglatel, having, among us, imbibed a stronger abhorre nce of this iufamous traffic than is generally evinced by his countrymen, has lately made die tour of the principal ports of France, to collect evidence, and to ascertain facts on this subject ; and ocular inspection has satisfied him that the laws of the state, and sti. potations of treaty are shamelessly and openly violated without reproof or punishment, H e saw chains forging to shackle the captured negroes, sad ships building in which to transport them,— I M. de Steel even brought to Pads some of the chains which he saw preparing for the coast of Africa, and tried them on the royal hands of the Dauphin. in the mean time Ministers connive at proceedings which they ought to prevent or punish. - [NEW TIMES.] It is asserted in the French Papers, that the accounts froM the South of Russia are perfectly satisfactory, and that the armies have taken the oath to Nicholas, with enthusiasm. It may be so; but we think the lapse of time has yet been hardly sufficient to bring the news in detail. It is certain that a spirit of German mysticism, combined with a revolutionary mania, had spread among some of the Russian Officers, and that this was the chief cause of the insur rection at St. Petersburgh. Whether a similar cause may be capable of producing a like effect, at any other point of this vast empire, we think it would be premature to decide. No less than forty officers are under arrest in the Russian capital, many of them of good families. Nicholas, it is said, has promised life, but nothing beside life, to Prince Troubetzkoy, one of the criminals : the favour, however, was accompanied with a severe remark—" lie shall live," said the Emperor, 44 since he is so fond of life." We observe in the Moniteur an article fron► Vienna, endeavouring to revive the old jealousy of England,nn the ground of our alleged wish to exercise dominion over Greece. It is really contemptible in any political writer of any country, to pretend to give credit to so silly a calumny. If our Government had been ambitious of possessing Greece, we needed but to have 'displayed our Hag on the shores of that country. Nay, the Greeks themselves, would have spared us that trouble. Is the writer of the Vienna article ignorant that a formal document was signed by the heads of the Greek people, earnestly beseeching the English Government to take Greece under its protection ? Or has he for gotten that our army was actually in possession of another large and valuable portion of the Turkish Empire, which, after wresting it. from the French litnies, we restored to its lawful Sovereign ? It may be thought that we ought to treat with silent con tempt the idle ravings of this German writer; but when they are copied into a paper like the Monileur, we feel it right to express our indig. nation, not only at the original charge, but at the currency given to it by a Journal of such► ex tensive circulation. [THE PUBLIC LEDGEIt.] Intelligence was received yesterday from Buenos Ayres, which is so far important, inas much as it seems to cut off the last hope of en amicable adjustment of the differences subsisting between that State and the Imperial Govern ment of Brazil. It reaches down to the 11th of November; and, after mentioning the equipment of several privateers, and the actual departure of one, to cruize against the Brazilian flag, it an. flounces the arrival of an . Officer, high on the Staff Sta of General Bolivar, and Charged with dis patches from that General, which, if the r.port of their contents be correct, will soon bring this portentous controversy to an end, one way or the other. This Officer arrived on the 4th of November, and on the following day the Act, incorporating the Banda Oriental with the United Provinces of La Plata, was proclaimed at Buenos Ayres. From this circumstance alone, it would not be difficult to divine the nature of the dispatches addressed to the Government of . the United Provinces : the penetration, however, of the Reader, will not be put in requisition, as our intelligence expressly states, that the act of incorporation is in perfect unison with the wishes expressed by the Liberator. This opinion is borne out by another part of our intelligence, in which it is said that the Colombian Officer, as soon as he had delivered his pa pers at BnenosAyres set off immediately for Rio Janeiro, with an autograph dispatch for the Emperor from Boli. var. As his arrival at Buenos Ayres was the signal on the part of that Government for cutting the Gordian knot on the subject of the Banda Oriental, so his departure for the Impe. rial Court wias followed by tide energetic melt. sures that we have already pointed out. The let ter of marque, that sailed soon after, is chiefly manned by seamen belonging, really or no. minally, to the United States of North America, and is supposed to be destined for the Indian Seas, particularly Macao, with which port the Brazilians, it is said, have este. Wished a very lucrative intercourse. This vessel, at setting out, did not hoist the Union fling, 'but that of the Banda Oriental ; however, the priva. teers that were preparing to sail, would hoist the Union colours, and in this case hostilities between . Brazil and Buenos Ayres would he inevitable. All hopes, however, of a friendly accommodation had not vanished, as some stress was laid on the effects of Sir C. Stuart's expected arrival at Buenos Ayres ; and we are per t suaded ourselves, that it will not be the fault of this distinguished diplomatist, if these hopes are disappointed. But the Buenos Ayres Government had left him very little scope for the display of his talents ; for, by its Act of incorporation, it bad taken the business out of the hands of the negociator, and left the Emperor only the alternative of concession or war. IMORNINCi We do not know that the time of the Legisla tore could be better employed than in devising some effectual mode of putting an end to the system of gambling which prevails in th e P u bli c Is'unds. This practice appears to increase in ac tivity in proportion to the number of its victims, and the mischief which it entails. It would not be at all erroneous to assert, that to one bona fide transaction in the Funds, there a re at least twenty of those time-bargains to which we allude ; and so established and recognised is this practice become, that these gamesters hold, as a matter of course,their monthlymeetings called settling days, at which they balance the gains and losses of the game, and witness the ruin of each other with all the indifference possible. No attentive ob server of the signs of the times will consider this any exaggeration —on the contrary, it requires 110 very penetrating glance to perceive that its in fluence is not confined to the mere scene of its operations, but extends into every corner of the kingdom, undermining and destroying public morals and domestic happiness. If Parliament would not incur the imputation of straining at gnats while it swallows camels, and will be in any degree consistent with itself, it cannot sit quietly and see the smaller buble of what is called the State Lottery abolished, while this greater Hydra rears its offensive and delu sive front with increased audacity and more liar.. dened aspect. It is no small scandal to the country that the character of the first commercial city in the world, and that of its high, honourable, merchants, should be compromised in this traffic ; and that its centre should be the vortex where so much wealth and capital should be ab sorbed in pursuits so utterly foreign to any thing like fair mercantile speculation. To point out a certain remedy for so inveterate and extensive a disease may be no easy task; but Parliament must not be deterred by this difficulty, or misled from turning its early and serious attention to an evil which, more than any other, threatens the very existence of national prosperity. ~BItITISH ritgss.] LONDON BOOKSELLERS.—Much is said by our contemporaries on the ‘‘ general distress which prevails among the booksellers," while, in truth, there is no real ground for this invidious lamen tation. The consequences of over.trading have occasioned failures to several individuals in this as in some other' branches of commerce ; but the great body of established booksellers were never more solvent than at this moment, nor ever stood in higher credit than they have done during the whole of the late troubles. In proof of this, the Bookseller,' Club, which is held at the Albion, end consists of the oldest and most respectable persons in the trade, has never since its first es tablishment, about twenty years ago, to this day, ever had a single failure out of their whole number. No fact can speak more decisively than this. There is a fallacy in the assertion that the dig tress of the silk manufacturer is not to be as cribed to the Act passed for the introduction of foreign silk goods on the sth July next, 44 inas much as it preceded the operation of this measure nearly nine months." It must be manifest to every one--and sse can hardly believe it can actually have escaped the present writer—that the stagnation of the Silk Trade ha , , been occa sinned by the impossibility on the part of the British manufacturer to contend against the fo reigner, who, in spite of the protective duty, will outrival hint in the market. The silk mer cent, on their pa rt, abstained many months ago from buying, because they were satisfied that the fo- reign silks would be brought in ate lower price than they could offer the goods of our own manufac ture, and that, consequently, they should have no sale for them. The manufacturers, it is ob vious, ceased to give out silk to their workmen, when there was no prospect of their being able to dispose of their stock already in hand, and this situation of things it was that led to the pre. sent deplorable state of distress which the silk districts exhibit. This distress is therefore im properly said to 64 have preceded the operation of this measure," which removed the restriction after the sth of July next, since it arose out of the actual operation of it, anti only preceded the period fixed for the commencement of the Act.— (Aids) EMORNING CHRONTCLI:j Yesterday was a Holiday at the Bank, but still the speculators on the Stock Exchange were not idle, and a good deal of business way done. Consols for Account opened as they left off on the preceding day, 801, and from that price gra• dually rose to 81, but from the demand having decreased, there was a subsequent trifling diminu. tion in price. Exchequer Bills remained at 4, and India Ronda were at a premium of from is. to 4s. In the Foreign Market the fluctuations were unimportant. It is painful to observe that the accounts of commercial distress from all parts of the country are becoming more serious. The letters received yesterday from the manufacturing districts presented extremely gloomy aspects, and from the scarcity of money, or rather the shock which credit has received, it is impossible to an. ticipate the extent of the evil. DUEL IN FItANCE.--A. duel vas fnuelit nt St. ,Servan, on the Ist inst. The parties were, a French getleman, Mons. 8., attended by two friends, and Captain F—v, of the British Royal Artillery, attended by Captain and Lieutenant au. both of the Royal Navy. The cir cumstanee which gave rise to this affair, was Captain F.'s having been waylaid and assaulted, without any provocation or cause of offence, by Mons. B. oil the Nth of DeCember, at half-past twelve at night, when returning home from a party. Captain F. having demanded satisfaction, the parties met at eleven a.m., when the French gentleman refused to fight with pistols, unless the Captain would agree (no'casually oe. curringi,to tight with the small. sword after the first fire. The British seconds not deeming themselves authorized to permit this arrangement, the French party thought it proper to make some very unhandsome reflections respecting British Officers wearing swords which they did not know the use of. It was then proposed to refer the dispute to a meeting of an *goal number of French and klngliell 'gentlemen ; but, although much discussion followed, no -decision took place. The Lnglish ,aeconda advised Captain not to fight with swords, in his wea k state . of health, occasion e d by wounds and long se r v i ces i n di f f erent c li mates , b ec a use his ad. versary, being a young man of five-and-twenty, in robust health, and an excellent swordsman, the chances were considered as not being by any means equal. Captain F. was, however, de: termlned - that it should not be veld that a British officer was afraid of a French swum, and *acing the use of pistols alto, gather, he even took the French on their own terms, and with their awn weapons. The parties met again at four when, after a smart combat with sm a ll s word*, Captain F. succeeded, at the moment of his bein g slightly wounded, in disarming his adversary, which of course,terininated the contest. The sword was not returned to the French, until it waS demanded or theni if they had aught further to Buy, and if Captain could now walk the streets unmolested ?,. They immediately promised it on their honour, declaring that they had unani mously recognized Captain F. to be a gentlelnarit a man of ho nour, and a brave man, and thus terminated the affair. Capt. F. is nearly well; it appears he was wounded in the abdomen, slightly, though critically. Captain F. bad not ptactised w i t h foils since he l e f t W oolwich twenty-two years ago. Some of the partied are we ll k nown, and highly respected, in South. gunptom—lSouthompten Herald.) A male belonging to Mrs. dress.tnaker, of Carey.street, was decoyed from the door of its parent on Monday, brtwowornen, and literately stripped naked. The.bny, Will) is between three and four years old, was 'found in Brook..street, Holborn, at ten o'clock at night, and was just able totell.where he lived, THE FRENCH COMMISSARIAT AN O M. OUVRARD. It will be remembered by such of our readers as take an interest in French affairs, that we have repeatedly alluded to the " affair " of M. OUVRARD, the Commissary-General, or rather the Contractor-General, of the French army, in its late invasion of the Peninsula. The Minister of Finance, in presenting to the Chambers the budget of expences connected with that expedi tion, found that all parties regarded the charges as at least equal - to the glory of the enterprise; and he experienced a particular hostility to that part of the bill of costs, which included M. Ou vrard's contracts. The Minister, therefore, after having in vain attempted to defend his con►ract ing friend, adroitly took him up and threw him plump into the devouring jaws of the opposition; anti never, certainly, had the foes of peculation a more magnificent bonne bouche. The mouths of the Deputies were instantly stopped—as well they might be—and the Chamber of Peers pro ceeded by a commission to adorn the altar, and prepare the victim. This commission of inquiry—the first ever known in French legislative annals—examined a great mass of documents, and produced an im mense report. This report comprises four folio volumes, and contains upwards of 2,000 pages— a work which excited the wonder and admiration of the Parisians, nearly as much as the Fountain of the Elephant. Like that grand design, too, the work was left unfinished. The commissioners, after all, merely stated grounds for farther exami nation, and referred the whole matter to the King. It was of course expected that his Ma jesty would again refer the inquiry to the Cham ber of Peers, and that the dull exhibition of the Trocadero and other minute exploits of the Spanish campaign, would be terminated by the more in teresting spectacle of an impeachment. In this the Parisians were disappointed. The King only Ininded over the affair to the commoi► tribunals, ordered the Commissary-General to be arrested, and his trial to proceed before a juge &instruction, like that of a common thief or. swindler. Before we state how the matter stands at to recapitulate a few of th e c i r c ums t ances w hi c h pre sent, or is likely to terminate, it may be proper the Commissioners of the Peers have published in their report. M. Ouvrard, according to this document, was no common peculator, whether we regard the sums which he amassed, the influence which he exercised, or the number and quality of the persons whom he made the instruments of his will, the dupes of his dexterity, or the'accom 'slices of his frauds. His demands on the French Government amounted in the course of 6 months to 65,000,000 of francs—and he had actually been allowed 50,000,000, or about two millions sterling. The individuals over whom he exer cised his corrupting arts were no less persons titan the three Intendants of the Army, and some of the General Officers of the Duke of Angou leme's staff, and the power which he obtained extended over every officer of :the army, and every agent. of the Commissariat. Lf ever a con tractor, therefore, deserved the name of a con juror, it was M. Ouvrard. Like other conjurors, too, he began his trade in poor circumstances, slid after evoking great sums from the pockets of others, has still the art to remain poor. He started from Paris about the beginning of April, in . circurnitatices of insolvency ; he had not formed a single contract ; he had not provided a single wound of grain,,bought a single beast of burden, nor engaged a single Vehicle or transport. When he arrived at Bayonne op the sth of April, 1823, he found all the magazines of Go. vermnent full; he found that forage and provi sions had been collected in abundance; he found that horses and carriages for transport had been secured. There were, in magazines on the Py renees, 17,000,000 of rations in bread ad biscuit, 13,000,000 of rations of rice and vegetubleS, and a million and a half of rations of forage. The commission states, that in the course of the three months which followed, substance had been col lected on the frontiers sufficient to maintain au army of 100,900 men for four months, while it must be observed that there was neither such a number of troops to be provided for, nor was it possible to subsist an army in the interior of Spain with provisions brought front France. This, it must be allowed, was a most unfortunate state of affairs for M. Onvtard—a most fatal abundance -- 7 a most perilous plenty for a Contractor-Gene ral ; but it did not dishearten this enterprising gentlema n . I n t h e f ace o f i t all, he un d ertoo k to pe rsua d e the military commissariat, the staff of th e Royal Duk e , an d th e R o y a l D u k e hi mse lf that th e army was in danger of being starved in its cantonm en t s , or of being unable to move fr om theta--that it h a d scarce l y a di nner to eat, or a waggon, to carry its baggage ; and that the immortal renown of the expedition must be lost for France, unless a new arrangement could be effected In the mode of supplying the: troops. A council of war was therefore called to deliberate on this ominous announcement, arid to take measures for preventieg its realization. M. Quvrard had conversed with the parties who pos ssssed most .influence ill this council, and. had Succeeded, by the force of some irresistible ar guments, in persuading them to see the danger in the same light with himself. It was accord-, intsly determined that the army should be fed and transported by contract, and that M. Ouv turd should be the universal contractor. Having', gained this point, he could not well .be refused some. other very convenient conditions for a man wto brought only his wits and his insolvency to feed and transport an army of a hundred thou. Sand men. Th e se conditions were— first, th a t h e * Qu id b e p a id i n advance 11,12ths of all the commodities which he should supply ; secondly, that all the commissariat 'age n t s in the empl oy of Government should b e pl ace d at his disposal ; and thi r dly, th a t h e s h ou ld : b e allowed to take from the Government stor es w h atever they. con (Liked suitable to the, w ants of i the ar m y.. Ifaviog obtained thes e conditions, an w ent . on as well as could be wished. M. Ouvrard bought up all the contracts of all the small contractors, who thus became his agent s , ant i allowed him a m comissionpo the amo un t o f t h e i r engagements. lie of course called in the assist ance of the army to supply itself, after passing the frontiers, and he only received the profit arising from the dif ference between what he paid to the natives, and what he charged to the Government. The Spa niards were willing enough to sell their pigs, poultry, bread, and wine, to the benevolent liberators of their country for good hard money, and brought to the camp as much as was wanted of these necessary articles. M. °lnfra rd's agents had therefore nothing to do but to conduct the operation of the purchase, and to pocket com mission on the supply. On some commodities, it must be confessed, he shewed an uncommon dex terity in turning the penny. He charged, for instance, for the hire of a horse, at the rate of not less than 1681. sterling a year, while the said horse was fed at the public charge, and while the price of the animal, if killed in the public service, was to be reimbursed at the , public charge ! Nay, so general was the description of casualty, by which the loss of the said horse, if it died in the cause of legitimacy, might be con sidered as chargeable to the French Government, that a constitutional disease might have entitled M. Ouvrard to indemnity, as well as a constitu• tional bayonet or blunderbuss. Every - disinterested officer in the army, and every honest well-informed man in France, ex claimed against the extravagance of these con tracts. The Minister of War visited the fron tiers in person, and declared against their neces sity or utility. One Intendant-General was dis missed after another, but each was corrupted in his turn. Out 'of three of them, M. de Villele himself declared, in the Chamber of Deputies, that one was guilty—that a second was more guilty—and a third less guilty than the other two. Nor was the supply of the army regularly secured even at 'these exorbitant prices. Nothing, it is true, went wrong at head-quarters, and the Prince was always pleased with the arrange. ments made for himself and his staff; but itt every otherAuarter the greatest difficulties and irregularities were experienced. The prices charged by the Contractor-General were so exe travagant, that he was enabled -to farm out his contracts to subaltern speculators, and they again to agents still inferior; so that the bread of the soldier had often to pass through the hands of 4or 5 gradations of plunderers. Nay, it often occurred that these harpies were paid while the poor people who supplied the articles in the first instance were defrauded of the purchase money. At the bead 'Of- the invading columns were seen zealous commissaries providing for the subsistence of the troops, and in their rear the village authorities and the inhabitants who had supplied the rations soliciting the military inten dants and general officers for payment, which could not be made for want of funds. These poor people being obliged to accept of bons, they followed the troops from town to town and from district to district, to have them exchanged for cash. When their patience was worn out, sad their alarms for ultimate payment were at their height, the agents of M. Ouvrard went round snd liquidated the Government debt at reduced rates, pocketing the difference between the contracted price and the composition payment. By this means a system of peculation and 'fraud became almost universal, and the double r9bbery was committed on the French Government and the Spanish peasant. It would be needless to enter further into the details of transactions which concern us only a 5 connected with the administration of justice among our neighbours. It has been observed that the Ministers referred the report of the Peers' Commission to the ordinary tribunals, in hopes, probably, that the guilty might escape, and that further public inquiry might be prevent et! by an acquitptl . before the Chamber of Accu sation, which fulfils the same functions in France as a Grand Jury does in England. The Attorney' General, Bellart, who era. , appointed t o prosec ute O t h t e t v i t ) a i t , h e r x o e n r i t l e d o u h t i . inse l l ie fdu rin g t wo d ays to h a ve by turns threatened and flattered the Court to obtain this o bj ec t, but in vain. The Judges were inflexible, and de' cided that grounds had been laid by the el'!" deuce before them, not only sufficient to put P. Ouvrard and a great number of subaltern peas' his s r R a o t ya C l Constantinop le, sitiga n h t o i t t . t s o s i: lators on their trial, but to implicate the Major' General of the army, Guilleminot, now Ambassa' d soulle. The Duke of Guiche, aide-de-camp to ously compromised. As the C R has our Royale C I) a n n iber s convoked be decided that the Chamber of Peers is the only is tribunal before which the trial of these state de' sa a i n d d lik G e e w n i e se ra t l o B b o e u i rd er e t : Unguents can be prosecuted, that Chamber 11 04 of _February. the drawing up The Legislative Session of the begins s s a o tt Court t he o 3 f o justic e thtls 3 fur t the on d l 5 :1 1 : of the indictment by a commis* don must be a work of co n s id er able labour and last a long time, it can scarcely be supposed that the final impeachment ca" take place till the business of legislation is terminated. Thus the Mi n i s t er s h a ll have gain" ed all his measures for the year before be incurs any further exposure, or loses any of his friends. In the mean time Ouvrard is a prisoner, though he w as lately the po , sesso r or di s t r ibutor t" millions, and Guilleminot is an ambassador and a peer. It is wor th y o f remark, that the three person" who will fi g u re most i n th i s trial for Pe "lati• were, d ur i ng had be en d ur i ng ;.he imperial t , tvaY the Spanish campaign, the most zealous supporters of Bourbon aggre"i", and the most vio lent partisan s of Napoleon's usurpation. Their idol' Was changed, but p the. spirit of their ot wors hip or the principles of their creed.r—i t Times.) • At clip I t -e ..111tEWSBUItY COUNTY i'+ESstOtas the Magistrates adjourned to the Lion Inn, and there was it discusAion, Which cop tinged several hours, as to the Pro priety or granting 2,000/. from the county rate of Shropshire , in aid of erecting a bridge in Montgomeryshire. The ta ts of the intended bridge is over the Virniew, through blanymY" neeh, on the line of road from Osweatry to Pool, and divergialt from the old road, nei:r the canal bridge.-51otion carried. LosicitviTY•---Withitt a circle of half a mite, in the tunwint:id j u l l o e t s . t a : Z i o e u r n h 7:72 ' IkeayreKarvsn,datraginrellid reside P ; er tt° ' l:ll-' 78 each. Printed anti Published fur the PROPRIETORS,' at the Sul° th'vick:, No. 112. Strand, by J. 13. I'ARBThIR S • ,